Nativity 2016

 Here is our annual family nativity picture. With this post we decided to do a little overview from the beginning until now. It's so much fun and a little sad to see the kids growing up in these pictures.

  2011

When Joseph went to Bethlehem..... I think he forgot Mary. The year we started this Gensie was only a couple weeks old and I couldn't think of a way to include her so we did it without her.

    2012

  2013

  2014

  2015

 2016

The traditional Nativity is made up of 1 woman and the rest men.  It gets pretty tricky when we have 1 man and 4 women.  As you can see, we had to squeeze Avonlea into a sheep costume that she is clearly too big for, so we simply put the head on her with her arms through the sleeves and she is sitting in her underwear behind the wool. :) 

Look how reverent they are trying to be!  In the next second they start ripping off their halos and scooting away from each other.  SUCH CUTE ANGELS